The Bank of Spain said the country, which only emerged from an 18-month recession at the start of 2010 and grew 0.7pc last year, was suffering from an escalation in Europe's debt woes.
"In 2011 the modest recovery which the Spanish economy began a year earlier weakened as the eurozone sovereign debt crisis extended to a greater number of countries and financial market tensions strengthened," it said in a report.
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